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26. Genus: IMiilenora Ecsenst. 
By this genus rather heterogeneous elements are now combined: a number of Australian species very 
closely allied to the preceding; a number of other forms being all confined to the Island of Madagascar (only 
one also in South Africa), and Indian species the $$ of which show broad scent-pads on the under surface of 
the wings and which were formerly detached as separate genera (Notata etc.). Of the Indo-Australian members 
of this genus there are 9 species known living in Australia itself and Tasmania with the exception of two. They 
have a strong proboscis, short palpi, in the male sex ciliated palpi, moderately long tibial spurs; the forewings 
are lancet-shaped, with a feeble apex and a long costal margin and proximal margin; the lower radial and upper 
median vein rise on the forewing rather close together from the lower cell-angle; the 2nd subcostal vein is petioled 
with the 3rd, the 4th with the 5th, and both the footstalks rise close together at the upper cell-angle, the first 
subcostal vein branches off far behind the middle of the very long cell from the chief vein; on the hindwing 
it rises about in the middle of the cell. 
P. aspectella Wkr. (= oecophorella Wkr., aspectatella Frogg). One of the more frequent species, aspectella. 
very similar to Thall. phalarota (13 c), only differing by the dark bands on the forewing being somewhat differently 
distributed, as our figure shows. — elegans Btlr. (= lunata Luc.) scarcely differs, except the dark colouring elegans. 
being somewhat broader and perhaps somewhat more intense. East Australia, from the Bass-Straits to Queens¬ 
land in the North. On Mt. Kosiuszko common in January. 
P. undulosa Wkr. ( = lyelliana Loiv.) (18h) from Tasmania, is much larger; the white forewing shows undulosa. 
a distinct discal dot and blackish dentate lines, a well as a series of marginal dots, the yellow hindwing being 
only brownish at the apical margin. 
P. omophanes Meyr. Thorax and forewings light reddish-brown; obliquely through the forewing, omophanes. 
from the first costal third to the middle of the proximal margin, runs a slightly curved line; at the cell-end 
a minute spot, behind it a postmedian line being angled in the middle, and the fringes speckled with lighter 
and darker brown. Hindwings thinly scaled, pale light yellow. Melbourne. 
P. chionastis Meyr. ($ = obliquata Luc.) (13 c) very much resembles the light forms of the prece- chionasiis. 
ding genus, e. g. Thall. leptographa Trnr. (13 c), but it is much smaller, only about half its size. On the dull 
white forewings are dull brown shades extending along the basal part of the costa, from before the apex to the 
middle of the proximal margin, and from the apex to the anal angle; hindwings white, faintly tinged yellow. 
In the $ the dark shading of the wings is much more considerable, so that it was described as a separate 
species. East Australia. 
P. nudaridia Hmps. (18 g). Here the hindwings are quite purely white and the forewing has only in nudaridia. 
the median area a spider-like, ramulous spot, and blackish, small dots before the apex and middle of the border. 
Queensland. 
P. transfascia Rothsch. <$: antennae brown, palpi very long, basal and terminal joints brownish- transfascia. 
black, middle joint white; head white; thorax white with a brown spot behind, tegulae and anterior edge 
speckled with small brown scales. Forewings milky white; a subbasal and antemedian costal-marginal spot, 
two costal-marginal spots before the middle, a median band growing very much broader towards the proximal 
margin, a fine postmedian spot, and a similar one at the costa, as well as two small spots dotted white at the 
border are blackish-brown. Hindwings grey. Another $ from the Milne Bay has smaller dots and spots, and 
the median band is interrupted. Length of forewings: 8 to 9 mm. Upper Aroa River in British New Guinea, 
in February; Milne Bay, in February. 
P. placochrysa Trnr. (18 h). Forewing with a yolk-coloured proximal half and similar spots at the placochry- 
costa and proximal margin behind the middle of the wing, the yellow hindwing with a broad blackish marginal 
band not being narrowed at the anal angle. Queensland. 
P. modica Luc. (18 h). This small animal is quite unlike the genus in the colouring and marking, modica. 
The shape and colour of the wings recall a small Lithosia; wings and body almost bone-coloured ; from behind 
the middle of the costa in the hindwing there extend two dark stripes, one behind the middle of the proximal 
margin, the other along the median, to the base of the wing; before the apex of the hindwing small dark spots; 
on the male fore- and hindwing beneath large, yellowish-red scent-pads. Queensland. 
P. parva Hmps. (18 h). Only half the size of modica, the wings bone-coloured light yellow, the scent- pan-a. 
spots beneath and the hindwing in the cell-part also above black. Nilghiri Mountains; discovered by Hampson. 
